IJSP Number 5, 2023

79 contracts with the colleagues who were trained in their own therapeutic school (in general, the founding members of the training associations have the dual quality of trainers and supervisors), they know the trainees’ personality, learning style, professional needs and, on the other side, the future supervisees know the supervisor’s style. Thus, the supervisor has an overview of the future supervision group: when it will start, who it will consist of and even who will be the trainees, the supervisees that will sign the supervision contract. The fellow supervisors, who signed supervision contracts with supervisees, who graduated training in the same therapeutic orientation but with different associations/ schools, mentioned as the main difficulty the supervisees’s level of knowledge. Trainers needed to work harder in bringing the supervisees to the same common denominator with the other members of the supervision group. Being a supervisor means allotting time to each supervisee within the framework of the group supervision and in individual supervision. At a given moment, it also means making a decision from a professional point of view: choosing the training side or the supervision side, as the predominant supervisor (group supervisor and individual supervisor). The supervisor needs to know the supervisee both at an individual level as well as a member of a supervision group, to know the supervisee’s supervision needs, learning style, to know what are the supervisee’s specific needs, how to develop the supervisee’s potential as a therapist, to explain to the supervisee what is expected of them, what must be fulfilled in order to complete the supervision internship, what will happen if the supervisor’s requirements are not met, what the supervision contract entails, etc., all these and more require time spent together. So far, I have presented, in general terms, the situation of future supervisees who decide to register for supervision with a different training provider and with another supervisor. Another situation is when a supervisee has completed the supervision program with the training provider, but for some reasons, needs a few more months or a year as an extension of the supervision contract in order to meet the criteria of the professional association in that country. The causes that lead to the mentioned situation are related to the supervisee (the delay in opening a private office, low interest in finding out about the necessary steps to move forward), or to the training association (the trainee is not informed of the next steps to be taken once training is finished, considering that it is mainly the trainee’s interest to be informed), or to the umbrella professional association in the country where the supervisee works (bureaucracy). The supervisee is forced to look for another available supervisor (if the initial supervisor no longer has the possibility to sign another contract or to extend the existing contract), a situation not exactly accepted by the potential new supervisor. In the situation where the supervisor from another training provider, with the same therapeutic orientation has been identified, at the end of the contracted period, the new supervisor needs to draw up a supervision report that will be handed to the supervisee.